Essays Tagged: "Allen Ginsberg"

immersing myself in the writings of the guilt-obsessed asexual Jack Kerouac, the ridiculously horny AllenGinsberg and the just plain sordid William S. Boroughs... it's nice to read a few poems by a g ... hened when he was put on trial for publishing a highly controversial collection of poems written by AllenGinsberg. Lawrence Ferlinghetti has chosen to express his political views through his poetry. ...

AllenGinsberg has been credited "the single greatest influence on the American poetic voice since W ... himself, and Ginsberg would most probably agree, being his own biggest fan. "America" is typical of AllenGinsberg in that it's increadibly long. AllenGinsbergs poems are characteristically long wind ... nteresting perspective- often political, cynical or sexual- which is why people either love or hate AllenGinsberg's work. His pieces are often like cleverly constructed diary entries with a slightly ...

AllenGinsbergAllenGinsberg was a man known for his crazy, grotesque beats. He made many officials ... 26. His dad, Louis Ginsberg, was a published poet, a high school teacher, and a moderate socialist. Allen's mom, Naomi, was a radical communist and irresponsible nudist who went insane in early adulth ... and thinking he and his friends were striving for a great poetic vision. During the summer of 1948, Allen had a vision in which the poet William Blake came to him and that changed him forever. The who ...

easily affordable, and the small paperbacks are still a common sight today. Ferlinghetti published AllenGinsberg's 'Howl' as Pocket Poets Number Four, and was tried on obscenity charges for this. He ...

e that were promised by our forefathers. Individualism is a large part of freedom, which makes it challenging to appropriately discuss the concept of the individual in American Literature among such a ... ature among such a diverse audience. It is interesting to note how two completely singular authors--AllenGinsberg and Walt Whitman-- from two totally distant eras, address the concept of the individu ...

h century to come out of the norm in traditional literature and set a precedent for future writers. AllenGinsberg was a great influence in the revolution in writing known as the Beat Generation. Alle ... e style led by his might also explain why Ginsberg took such an innovative method in his writings ("AllenGinsberg").Ginsberg has shown interest in speaking out against current issues since he was 15 ...

vagabonds, their experience both captured and defined by such immortal writers as Jack Kerouac and AllenGinsberg, utterly rejected the values and ideals of middle class America. Beat literature dras ... f the social movement were expressed by the literature of quintessential beat authors Jack Keroauc, AllenGinsberg, and William S. Burroughs. The works of these revolutionary writers created such a co ...

olarship. He received a scholarship to Columbia University for football. Columbia is where Jack met AllenGinsberg and many other soon-to-be beat authors and poets. Kerouac didn't really fit in at Col ... ared as Cody Pomeray and in the other, Dean Moriarty. Another of Kerouac's intellectual friends was AllenGinsberg, who appeared in nine of Kerouac's novels. Kerouac met Ginsberg at Columbia Universit ...

onsumed by drugs that they begin to lose control of their thoughts and actions. In the poem Howl by AllenGinsberg, a pair of young men's lives are portrayed in their days of drug usage. The poems tel ...

Beat culture. Within the next three chapters, the major icons of the Beat movement - Jack Kerouac, AllenGinsberg and William Burroughs are discussed. The final chapter looks at those who have contin ... here she explains how the origin of the term "beat generation". The founders of the beat movement - AllenGinsberg, Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs had picked up the term "beat" in Times Square ...

the Navy some time later and sailed to England. When he returned, he met back up with Lucien Carr, AllenGinsberg, and William Burroughs. These people would be very influential in his future writings ... hey were 'beaten', meaning that the world was against them. The movement started when Jack Kerouac, AllenGinsberg, and William Burroughs befriended one another through Lucien Carr. Curious to discove ...

"America when will we end the human war? Go f*** yourself with your atom bomb." This quote sums up AllenGinsberg's thoughts of American in about two sentences. Ginsberg is a person that is very unha ... d them better as a whole.The historical context of this time played a very key role for how and why AllenGinsberg and President Eisenhower viewed American. The main reason for such change was due to ...

understanding. Ginsberg and Komunyakaa's poem mirrors how American society reacted to war. However, AllenGinsberg wrote about the World War II. and Yusef Komunyakaa's war themes are about Vietnam, th ... during the war. It served as a prison and a 'piece of America' - ironically called by the soldiers.AllenGinsberg's poem is riddled with references, though, these references are persons and places fr ...

e in his poems, such as the rape in "Glasgow Green". Furthermore, one of the most famous beatniks - AllenGinsberg - was also openly homosexual which, nowadays, does not seem enough to warrant a compa ... n interview for the Scotland on Sunday newspaper in 1990 that"the American Beat poets -- especially AllenGinsberg -- produced astrong reaction in me. I liked the way in which Ginsberg was an urbanpoe ...

nd innovations by the baby boomers. Written in this decade, more specifically in 1956, "America" by AllenGinsberg reflects Ginsberg's personal views on the happenings of this era. Through the poem's ... erica's libraries will not always be filled with a history "full of tears" (12).Work CitedGinsberg, Allen. "America." Class Handout.

alling, must pay. Ferlinghetti himself risked absurdity in 1956 when he published "Howl", a poem by AllenGinsberg which caused a lot of controversy because of its abundant sex, drug, and homosexualit ...

. The poems chosen for this paper are "The Ferryer", Sharon Olds, "A Supermarket in California", by AllenGinsberg, and "The Junior High School Band Concert", by David Wagoner. The analysis will discu ... 1993).Second Poem, "A Supermarket in California"The second poem, "A Supermarket in California", by AllenGinsberg (1984), is his description of a hallucination he had of Walt Whitman. He starts the p ...

ng "new dawn" on the cultural landscape. Using his connections, Michael arranged for Timothy Leary, AllenGinsberg, and others to appear, and organized publicity for this seminal event.Allen Cohen-All ... autiful newspapers ever printed. At its peak, over 100,000 copies a month were printed, and true to Allen's dream, it was indeed seen around the world.Neil Cassidy-As the model for the non-stop Dean M ...

Jack Kerouac, AllenGinsberg and the Beat Generation Jean-Louis Lebris de Kerouac (Jack Kerouac) and Irwin Allen G ... as Wolfe, William Carlos Williams, Kenneth Rexworth, William Blake, and Walt Whitman (Waxman 8). As AllenGinsberg explains, ?we were able to be candid at a time when candor was not a feature of Ameri ... to watch over. However, Ginsberg?s father was a teacher and a poet, and had a positive influence on Allen, his second son. Ginsberg graduated high school in 1943 with, similar to Kerouac, a scholarshi ...

Despite my little interest in poetry, I found myself astounded and aggressively taken away with AllenGinsbergs works. This is the first time I have ever read such provocative, explosive, an ... ray a nice, elegant, moral usually seen humanity in previous old school, formally structured poems. AllenGinsberg used his weapon, his works to present the reality to American people by delivering th ...